Notes
[Sunday 17 August 2008 - Saturday 23 August 2008]
[Notebook: DB 64 Gravitation]
Sunday 17 August 2008
Monday 18 August 2008
Tuesday 19 August 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Thursday 21 August 2008
[page 88]
Friday 22 August 2008
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Soon the five minutes of fame [ABC Perspective] will be over and I can get back to seriously developing the model. The meaning of quantum mechanics and the non-quantization of gravitation are two sides of one coin.
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Most Utopias (like heaven) are 'closed', the assumption being that there are no riff-raff in utopia.
Miller / Sharman / Maddox SMH 23-24 August 2008 Arts page 18: 'art forms are at their most vital in the hands of vulgarians.'
[page 89]
Ecology: top take someone's livelihood is to kill them.
Can God make a stone bigger than it can lift? Can God create itself? Some say no, but we can do anything that can be expressed as an algorithm. Even though the future is unpredictable, every past history is determinate (if it can be observed).
We describe the creation of the Universe as a union of quantum mechanics and network theory.
Traditionally God is the creator, but is God creative?
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Some say no. If God is the realization of all possibility, there is nothing left for him to do or be. A similar line of reasoning suggests that God cannot laugh.
